KELMSCOTT PRESS.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Sire Degrevaunt. First Kelmscott Press edition, one of 350 copies printed on paper. This Middle English romance was a favourite in William Morris's circle. In the summer of 1860, Edward Burne-Jones completed a wall-painting of The Wedding Procession of Sire Degrevaunt in the drawing room of Red House. The text of this edition was based on the Camden Society's Thornton Romances.This copy carries, twice, the bookplate of Rev. John Wilfrid Royds Brocklebank (1869–1926), an English cleric, and art collector. He once owned a number of Turner drawings, and bequeathed a number of artworks to institutions on his death.

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